I better call back

My mother called me this morning, to tell me that our village in Crete is all white from the snow. Considering that Crete is at the south of Greece and our village is close to the sea, those are big news! Actually in the nine years that I was living in that area, I remember just three times snowing in the village!

As every rare event (when it isn't disastrous) it was amusing and we had a lot of fun playing with the fresh snow and spending quality time in front of the wood-burning stove :)

But this year I am away so I can't enjoy the snowfall. Instead I opened my hard drive to see what I was doing a few years ago when I was actually there and here is what I have found!

I didn’t find the exact date but I am close enough. Instead of the 30th, I have found what was happening on the 27th of January and the 1st of February, in the year 2018. That is six years ago. The first big difference that I noticed when I opened the folder, is that I was six years younger (obviously) and the second that it wasn’t snowing (far from it).

The almond trees were blooming, the bees were gathering the pollen from the flowers and the sun was shining brilliantly! I haven’t seen any almond trees where I am now. Too bad because they are a wonderful spectacle to see, in the middle of the winter!

The broad beans were started to bloom too. It would be a while before they bear fruits but we used to add the leaves of the plant in our salad. A delicious addition, too :) I kind of miss them. We don’t have a garden right now but I could have planted a few in a pot. They would have been enough for the taste of it!

And of course our cats laying on the garden! Some of our cats :) Now we don’t have any, as we don’t have a garden, but at some point in Crete, there were eleven of them demanding a meal every morning that I was opening the door. In a quite loud way, I might add :)

Here are just four of them!

What else was happening six years ago?

Of course, how could I forget! We were pruning the olive trees and burning the extra branches. The burning part is a practice that we stoped doing in the following years but back then it was our only option.

As for the winter anemones, they can be found in all our olive groves and I am always grateful to see them around :)

And last but not least, the view. Now if you have seen my posts of the last months you know that I live in a place with plenty of spots to watch amazing views, even better than this one. But after looking at this specific one for nine whole years, I have become kind of addicted to it :)

I better call back now, to find out if it is still snowing!